Blackthorn is a thoroughly decent western that takes up where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid left off. There's no Newman or Redford, of course. Instead, actor/playwright Sam Shepard plays a grizzled, bewhiskered Butch, who somehow escaped the Bolivian shootout in which he was reported killed. 20 years later, he goes by the name of James Blackthorn and is living quietly on a remote Bolivian ranch. But he has to take up his guns again when he crosses paths with a Sundance-style kid (Eduardo Noriega) with stolen money in his saddlebags, and half of Bolivia hard on his heels after it. Stephen Rea is a hangdog ex-Pinkerton detective, and Nicolaj Coster-Waldau, from TV's Game of Thrones, plays the young Butch in brief flashbacks that link past with present. The film plods at times but, by and large, it's a gripping watch. With westerns rarer than hen's teeth, and decent westerns even rarer, this is certainly one that genre fans should seek out.